Choices of Fate (Fate Series) (10 page)

Ethan began to kiss down the middle of her body, stopping above her navel, dipping his hot tongue inside before continuing down. Still stroking her inside with his fingertip, he flicked his tongue over her swollen clit. Her hips shot up as she moaned, pushing her fingers into his hair as she tried to get even closer to the sensation of his mouth.
 

He smiled at her eagerness as he sucked her sensitive flesh into his mouth and pushed his finger further inside.
 

“Oh God, Ethan, that feels, so good,” she whimpered feeling her climax building. Impossibly, it was even better than the night before in his car, being able to move freely, feeling his bare skin next to hers.

Her legs began to quake uncontrollably as the pressure built and subsided over and over with each movement of his tongue and fingers. Just as she was about to fall over the edge Ethan stopped. Alexa’s eyes snapped open and she squirmed, desperate to end the exquisite torture. She opened her mouth to protest, but before she could utter a word Ethan’s covered her mouth with his, slipping his tongue inside as he began sliding his throbbing cock up and down her overly sensitized flesh.

She fell over the edge and the waves of orgasm washed over her body. While she was still at the peak of her release, Ethan pushed inside of her in one swift motion and stilled.
 

She gasped and dug her fingernails into his back. Her climax continued through the discomfort of being filled for the first time. Ethan remained still with his face turned away, panting and wrestling desperately with the beast within him to remain still and ignore the delicious scent filling the air.
 

Finally, after several minutes he began to move, feeling that he had regained control. His strokes were slow and measured. He turned his face to Alexa and brushed her long brown hair away from her eyes as he stared down at her.
 

“Open your eyes, Amor.” She obliged and was taken aback by the emotions she saw swimming in the depths of his beautiful eyes. It all felt so amazing, she was overwhelmed and felt tears building as her own emotions welled up in response.
 

“Aye, fuck, does it still hurt? Do you want me to stop?”

Alexa quickly shook her head. “No, no, I’m sorry, no. I didn’t mean to cry, this is just so, so amazing. I’m just overwhelmed, happy.”

He sighed in relief and smiled down at her as he started to move again. The pain had subsided and she felt another orgasm building. Ethan filled her so completely. She couldn’t help feeling as if he was made just for her. Though she was initially grateful that his thoughts were blocked, in that moment she wished that she could hear him. She wanted to be connected to him in every way possible.
 

She started to cry out as another climax crashed down upon her. Ethan covered her mouth and swallowed her moans as his own orgasm tore through his body and his essence poured out inside her.

As their rapid breaths began to slow he remained there on top of her enjoying the connection while she gently stroked his hair.
 

Alexa’s hand stopped and her body stiffened suddenly.

Ethan pushed up slightly to look down at her concerned expression.

“What’s wrong, Amor, are you hurt?”

She swallowed, hard. “That was so stupid, we didn’t use anything. I’m not on birth control, Ethan.”

He chuckled and rolled off her to the side and pulled her into his arms. “Do not worry, Amor, I cannot get you pregnant.”

She turned her face towards him. “How do you know that, are you, um, sterile?”

“In a manner of speaking, yes.”

She looked at him, thoroughly confused. “What does that mean?”

He couldn’t get into too much detail without revealing everything, and now was not the right time, so he decided to go with a simplified version of the truth. “There are genetic anomalies in my family that make procreation rather, challenging. Certain steps would need to be taken for me to even attempt to have a child, so you need not concern yourself.”

Alexa could sense that there was more he wasn’t saying, but she was too relieved and it felt so good lying there in his arms she decided to let it go, for now.

✧

They spent the day locked away in Alexa’s bedroom, talking and making love. She was exhausted, but Ethan seemed to have an unlimited supply of energy. Not that she was complaining, she had never been happier, and he was doing all the heavy lifting.

It was well after the sun went down when she woke to Ethan kissing a trail down her back.
 

“Alexa, Amor, are you awake?”

She moaned lightly in response. Having just woke up, Alexa’s shields were completely down and she could feel Ethan’s need. They had made love multiple times over the course of the day and into the evening, still he wasn’t sated. Each time they were joined, she sensed that he was holding back something.

“I love you, Alexa. I have waited such a long time for you, and I know with everything that I am and have ever been that I love you.”

Alexa gasped, overwhelmed and elated. Feeling bold, empowered by his declaration, she turned, rolled Ethan onto his back and climbed on top of him. She reached behind her and stroked his thick stalk as she looked down at him, searching, wondering what he needed from her.
 

She raised herself up and placed his wide crown at her wet and rather sore opening. She slid down slowly gazing at Ethan until he filled her completely once again.
 

With him buried to the hilt, she leaned down and spoke softly against his ear.
 

“Ethan, I love you, too. I am yours. Everything I have, everything I am is yours. Take whatever you need from me. I will do anything for you.”

He groaned hearing her sweet words and let his eyes drift to the soft thrum of her pulse at the base of her neck just inches away from his mouth. He knew when she offered herself to him like this she didn’t understand the implications. His baser self, his beast didn’t care. He needed to possess her fully. Just thinking the thought, he felt his fangs lengthen in anticipation. And then her body clenched around him, squeezing his cock like a vise and he lost the last bit of his control. He licked along the length of her vein causing it to rise to his call and closing his eyes, he struck.

Alexa didn’t understand what was happening. It was if her pleasure had increased exponentially but instead of building from her core it was flowing down from her neck where Ethan was kissing her. As the waves of the mind-blowing climax started to subside she felt Ethan’s body go rigid and suddenly felt incredibly drowsy. The feeling was unnatural, like she was covered with a shroud and being pulled underwater. She began to panic and felt Ethan pull away from her neck, felt the sting of, oh God, his fangs retracting. And then it was dark.
 

Ethan paced the room as Alexa slept, trying to understand how he had missed it. The moment her blood hit his system he knew his mistake. She was the one. The girl from the prophecy that he had spent the last two-hundred years trying to avoid. He roared up at the ceiling, knowing that he wouldn’t wake Alexa having placed her under a trance the moment he realized his error.

This can’t be! She doesn’t have the mark. The prophecy was very specific about the mark on the right side behind the ear. My mother confirmed it last night.

He strode over to Alexa and turned her to look at the right side of her head as she slept. Even in his state of distress her beauty overwhelmed him. He examined the skin behind her ear, wondering if the mark was simply too faint to notice, but there was nothing visible on her skin. He gently ran his fingers through her hair to move it up and examine farther down on her neck when he glimpsed a dark spot on her scalp about an inch back from her hairline. Gently parting her hair he sighed and climbed into the bed to hold her while she slept. He felt a tear slide down his cheek as he pulled her body close and let the trance lift. This would be the last time he held her and his heart ached with the loss.

✧

Alexa awoke early that morning and smiled as she stretched lazily, reaching for Ethan before the images of him biting her neck came crashing through her mind. She grasped for her neck and scrambled off the bed to the mirror.
 

“Oh thank God.” She sighed with relief. It must have been a dream. Though as her thoughts turned to Ethan, that spot on her neck began to tingle. She glanced down to see she was dressed in her favorite t-shirt and a pair of boy shorts. She didn’t even remember getting dressed. In fact, the last thing she remembered was making love to Ethan and him biting her, which had clearly been a dream. She thought hard, trying to grasp the memory of the last real thing that had happened the night before. It was so odd, she hadn’t been drinking yet she felt as if she had blacked out.
 

Glancing around the room, she couldn’t find any sign of Ethan. She opened the door and walked out into the hallway, calling out to him, but the only response came from Tilly who was pawing at the door to the balcony.

“Sorry girl. I didn’t mean to kick you out for the whole night. You probably need to go for a walk, huh?” She turned back into her room and grabbed a pair of comfy jeans, sliding them on as she head towards the kitchen to get Tilly’s leash. As she approached the counter she saw the note.
 

Alexa,

I do not know what to say to you now that will make this easier. Please understand that I would never intentionally hurt you, and everything we felt is real, though you may find that very hard to believe at present. My only wish is to protect you. That is why I must leave. I wish I could explain, but it would only make things more difficult. You deserve the chance to choose your life, a normal life that would never be possible with me. Please remember your promise. As much as you may hate me for this, I am begging you to keep it. You have my heart now and forever.

E

Alexa felt light headed. The note slipped from her hand and glided to the floor as she crumpled to her knees.

CHAPTER 7 -
A Desperate Search

After sitting in stunned silence for several minutes, Alexa hopped up and grabbed her iPhone. She scrolled to Ethan’s name and clicked on it, heart pounding as she waited for the ring that didn’t come. A recording came on notifying her that the line was no longer in service.

Alexa put the phone down and forced herself to venture outside only briefly to walk Tilly before she grabbed the note and crawled back in bed. She read it repeatedly, going over every line in detail.
 

What does he think he needs to protect me from?
 

She went over every moment she had spent with Ethan in her head, remembering the feeling of conflict she had sensed at times.

That was about his family, his parents, and he said they had come around after he visited them, didn’t he?

But she had felt it after that, right before she told him she was a virgin. She had been so anxious about telling him that she didn’t give him a chance to finish what he wanted to tell her.

A normal life? What a joke, I’ve never had a normal life. How is he giving me a choice? He is taking my choice away, he decided this all on his own without even talking to me!

Tilly stayed by her side as Alexa remained silent in thought, occasionally laying her large head across her stomach, silently offering comfort as she had always done. When she brought home the gangly and extremely clumsy ten week old Tilly over three years ago, Alexa hadn’t known how important the Great Dane would be in her life. Somehow, the dog’s company and affection had made Alexa’s loneliness bearable the last few years.

Alexa climbed out of bed and paced around her apartment, unwilling to accept this. She had to find him, not only for an explanation, but to convince him he was wrong. She knew they were supposed to be together, with every fiber of her being. He wanted to give her a choice. Alexa already knew it wasn’t her choice to make, it wasn’t his either. Their hearts had made it for them. Looking back, Alexa realized she was in love with Ethan from the first moment they met. It was as if their souls had already known each other for a lifetime. Time was insignificant, loving each other was inevitable. It was fate.

She nervously twisted the diamond hanging from her necklace and an idea came to her. Ethan had donated money to the zoo. She didn’t know where he lived, but someone at the zoo would have his information, they would need to send him a letter to document the donation for tax purposes.
 

She quickly dressed and took Tilly for another short walk before hopping into her Lexus and driving to the zoo. As she approached the entrance she was surprised to see the same girl from that night at the window.

The girl looked up at Alexa, recognition and something similar to disgust evident in her expression.
 

“Hi, I don’t know if you remember me,” Alexa lied, “ was here the other night, with Ethan, uh, Mr. Kellar. I was wondering if I could speak with the gentleman that escorted us into the zoo for a moment.”

“You mean the president and CEO? May I ask what this is about?” she asked in a less than polite tone.

“Um, well, it’s kind of private.”

“Well Mr. Ross isn’t here yet. He won’t be around for another couple of hours. Is there something I could help you with?”

Alexa stood there for a moment as other patrons filed around her to the next admission window. Hell, what did she have to lose?

“I was wondering if you could give me some information…on Mr. Kellar. I lost my phone and it had his number in it and he, uh, he left his watch in my car. It looks expensive, so I really want to get it back to him as soon as possible. So he doesn’t worry, you know?”

“Hmm, well, I’m terribly sorry,” her voice dripped with sarcasm, “but we can’t release any personal information about our patrons.” She had a satisfied sneer plastered across her beautiful face. Unable to help herself, Alexa listened in, hoping the girl would think of something that could help her find Ethan.